re: #38 Uncle Obdicut

By the way, the crime this woman committed (on top of the visa stuff) was peonage.
Nice word, ugly crime.

And the accusations levied by India against the maid are just as ugly, including extortion and theft.

NEW DELHI: India has escalated its confrontation with the US over the humiliation heaped on its diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, by virtually accusing Washington of conspiring to facilitate the illegal immigration of Khobragade’s maid Sangeeta Richards and her family, comprising her husband and two children, to America.

New Delhi divulged on Wednesday that the maid’s family flew out on an Air India flight on December 10, two days before Khobragade was arrested in New York. This was despite India informing the US state department about the disappearance of the maid in June, her attempts to blackmail Khobragade, the revocation of Richards’ passport, and an arrest warrant being issued against the maid by the Delhi high court.

Keep in mind that the diplomat, Khobragade is an dalit, or popularly known as an untouchable…so you can’t say that she is a class beneficiary with respect to the maid.